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Dataconsult BVBA - Bart Vanwijnsberghe wrote:
> 
> "Sjoerd Schreuder"...
> > Dataconsult BVBA - Bart Vanwijnsberghe wrote:
> > > "Sjoerd Schreuder" wrote:
> > > > Waarom zet je er eigenlijk een password op als je niet wilt dat er
> > > > om een password wordt gevraagd?
> > >
> > > Een paswoord en username is verplicht, anders kan er geen connectie gemaakt
> > > worden met de SQL Server bij ons hostingleverancier.
> >
> > Dan raad ik de Ident-O-Ease aan. ;-)
> 
> huh ??

Toch nog maar even opgezocht. De juiste spelling is "Ident-i-Eeze"
(ik had vanmiddag het boek niet bij de hand om het op te zoeken).
Een simpele google search leverde al gelijk diverse plaatsen met
de volledige tekst op, hetgeen mij weer een boel tikwerk bespaarde.

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It wasn't insanely exciting to look at. It was rather dull in fact. It was
smaller and a little thicker than a credit card and semi-transparent. If you
held it up to the light you could see a lot of holographically encoded
information and images buried pseudo-inches deep beneath its surface .

It was an Ident-i-Eeze, and was a very naughty and silly thing for Harl to
have lying around in his wallet, though it was perfectly understandable.
There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide
absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become
extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper
existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an
epistemologically ambiguous physical universe. Just look at cash point
machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have
their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from
the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant - a good six
or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer
trick questions about members of their family they didn't even remember they
had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that
was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to
raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant
bill things could get really trying.

Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about
you, your body and your life into one all- purpose machine-readable card
that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented
technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common
sense.
---
Uit "Mostly Harmless" (Hitch-Hikers guide to the Galaxy, deel 5)
van Douglas Adams.

Sjoerd Schreuder